Improvement in dried-beef cutter



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Letters Patent N 98,263, dated December-28, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN BREED-BEEF CUTTER,

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent an making 'paxtof the z'axne.`

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that wc, CHESTER qLHOLMEs and and we declare tllefollowing to be a full and exact dcscription thereof, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, and to the letters Ot' reference thereon, forming a part of this specification.

The sume letters always indicate the same parts.

Figure l is au end elevation.

Figure 2 is a side elevation.

Figure 3 is a plan view.

The cutting-device is supported upon a smell wooden table, three or four inches high, seven or eight inches Jong, and six or seven inches wide, supported by the end piece b, and the rib-piece c.

a. is the top of the table.

"Ehe letter g designates the swinging arm,'witl1 a, handle et one end, and hung et the other end On the pin t'.

In the middle Of the swinging arm is the straight slot s.

'The inside of the arm, just Orerthe slot, is so made as to allow a lint steel knife, o, to be fastened toit, in4

such fashion that the exposed surfaceof the knife and the surface of the arm shall form almost a continuous level. 4 l

This flat knife is fastened to the swinging arm by tlwo screws driven through it into the arm. The points of thesescrews, xx, appeanon the opposite side ofthe arui in iig. 1.

Two otuer screws, l l, are driven through the arm, and bear against the inside surface of the steel knife.

These screws are used for the purpose of regulating the cut of the knife. When driven in they will make theknfe take a. deeper cut, and vico versa.

The operation is as follows:

llace the dried heef upon the top of the table, keep it with a gentle pressure againsty the knife, at f the same time vibrating the swinging arm, and the beef will be rapidly and finelyy cut.

The slot s and the knife o are set et nu angle of forty-five degrees to the plane ofthe top of the table, so as to give the knife a drawing cut. s

n.' is a stop for the arm.

The letter d designates a wire hook, .swinging by a screw from the rib-piece c, by which hook the whole device cnn he quickly and conveniently fastened to the edge of the top of a table.

, We claim, as Aour invention- The combination of a. table, made as described, having the hook d, with the swinging 'arm 'g bearing the knife o, fastened and regulated as described, all for the purpose herein set forth.

Dated May 28, 1869.

.. Witnesses: DAVID C. HOLMES.

CYRUS BAUEORD, W. M. CRAWFORD CHESTER J. HOLMES. f 

